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Classic D&D Settings

by Håvard

Published Settings

• Blackmoor (1974)
• Greyhawk (1974)
• Melniboné: included as pantheons in Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes (1976)
• Call of Cthulhu: included as pantheons in Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes (1976)
• Conan: included as pantheons in Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes (1976)
• J. Eric Holmes' Porttown (1977)
• Mystara aka The Known World or the D&D Game World (1981)
• Hollow World (Mystara subsetting)
• Savage Coast (Mystara subsetting)
• Thunder Rift (Mystara Subsetting)
• Blackmoor (Mystara Subsetting)
• Pelinore (The Imagine Magazine / TSR UK Setting)
• Middle Earth (As presented in articles in TSR UK's Imagine Magazine)
• Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne (As presented in X2 and Gaz3 it was integral to Mystara, but in the author's works it is a separate setting.
• The Realm (From the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon)
• The Vale of the D&D Fast-Play Game
• The DragonStrike Board Game Setting
• SnarfQuest (TSR, 1987)

TSR OD&D Variant Settings

• Tekumel
• Barsoom

3rd Party Publishers

• Crystania: The setting of the Record of the Lodoss War Series was included along with the Known World (Mystara) in the Korean Boxed set for Mystara.
• The Wilderlands: Bob Bledsaw's Campaign Setting was published byJudges Guild under a lisence from TSR. Dave Arneson originally acted as liason between TSR and JG.
• Arduin: David A. Hargrave's fictional universe, originally self-published in 1977.

Other Notable Campaigns

• Tom Moldvay and Lawrence Schick's Known World setting.
• Ed Greenwood's Proto Forgotten Realms in this era.
• Jeff Grubb's world of Toril/Toricandra. Here's a pdf describing the pantheon of that world
• The Ryth Chronicles
• Aurania
• Gary Switzer's California Campaign
• John Wheeler's Islandia Campaign
• Frank Mentzer's Aquaria Campaign
• Fred Funk's Campaign
• John Snider's Blackmoor Campaign